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CYRENIUS
ANDRUS
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of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois, 1879, by Miller &
Ruggles
Havana Township
Page 752
CYRENIUS W. ANDRUS,
retired, Havana: was born in Rutland, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Oct. 23, 1810, but
removed, when about 16 years of age, with his father's family, to Watertown, N.
Y., thence, in the spring of 1836, to Illinois. His first location was at
Havana, then within the confines of Tazewell Co. Mr. Andrus, soon after his
arrival, engaged in the mercantile business with the late Northrup J. Rockwell,
and about three years later removed to Fulton Co., and became a tiller of the
soil. In 1845, he returned to Havana, which has since been his home, and again
engaged in merchandising. The condition of the country, and the methods of doing
business on the arrival (and for many years after) of Mr. Andrus and other early
settlers, will be fully set forth in another department of this work. Mr. Andrus
served as Justice of the Peace at quite an early date in the history of the
city, but declined all other invitations to public honors. He is the oldest in
the mercantile trade of any one now living in Mason Co. He was married, in 1834,
to Miss Lucy, daughter of Northrup Rockwell, and sister of the late Judge
Rockwell ; she was born in Vermont; died at Havana, in 1853. By this union there
were five children, none of whom are now living. In 1855, he was married to Mrs.
Elizabeth Rutledge, daughter of R. Simms; her native place was Virginia; her
death occurred in 1873. He was married to Mrs. Sigourney Clark; his present
wife, in 1876; she was born in Watertown, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
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Mayer